Yanagi Missions
These were missions enabled under the Axis Powers' Tripartite Pact to provide for an exchange of personnel, strategic materials and manufactured goods between Germany, Italy and Japan. Initially, cargo ships made the exchanges, but when that was no longer possible submarines were used.
Only four other submarines had attempted this trans-oceanic voyage during World War II: I-30 (April 1942), I-8 (June 1943), I-34 (October 1943) and the German submarine U-511 (August 1943). Of these, I-30 was sunk by a mine and I-34 by the British submarine Taurus. Later, the famous Japanese submarine I-52 would also share their fate.
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